Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts
Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic
[Figurative Thought and Language, 7] 2020. xi, 346 pp.
Laura Hidalgo-Downing
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Hidalgo-Downing plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Metaphorical creativity across modes
Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 3:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2024 Instagram is a ridiculous lie factory: Creative and evaluative metaphors of social media in a sample of newspaper opinion discourse Metaphor and the Social World 14:1, pp. 85–108 | Article
This article explores the way in which social media and its relation to mental health is metaphorically conceptualized in newspaper opinion discourse. We discuss the extent to which metaphoric expressions are used creatively and whether they convey positive or negative evaluations. For this… read more
2024 A protocol for the annotation of evaluative stance and metaphor across four discourse genres Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The present article contributes to research on evaluation by addressing two complementary objectives: first, we present a protocol for the identification and annotation of evaluation in English discourse and, second, we show the results of the implementation of the protocol in the annotation of… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards an integrated framework for the analysis of metaphor and creativity in discourse Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 4. Singing for peace: Metaphor and creativity in the lyrics and performances of three songs by U2 Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 71–96 | Chapter
This chapter explores how metaphoric creativity contributes to shaping and recontextualizing ideological and socio-political practices in three songs by U2, “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”, “Please” and “Peace on Earth”. The contextual motivations of metaphoric creativity are analyzed by exploring three… read more
2017 Evidential and epistemic stance strategies in scientific communication: A corpus study of semi-formal and expert publications Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives, Marín-Arrese, Juana I., Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero (eds.), pp. 225–248 | Article
The present paper presents the results of a corpus study of evidential and epistemic strategies as stance markers in two subgenres of scientific discourse, a sample of semi-formal publications (New Scientist) and one of expert publications (PubMed). First, an onomasiological approach to… read more
2016 Multimodal metaphor, narrativity and creativity in TV cosmetics ads Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Romano, Manuela and Maria Dolores Porto (eds.), pp. 137–158 | Article
The present article explores the interaction between multimodality and narrativity as a discourse strategy which promotes creativity as a socio-cognitive process in British TV cosmetics ads. Multimodal TV ads narratives are structured visually and aurally by means of the extended metaphors light is… read more
2014 The role of negative-modal synergies in Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species Evaluation in Context, Thompson, Geoff † and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 259–280 | Article
This chapter explores the role of negative-modal synergies in the expression of authorial stance and intersubjective positioning in Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. As markers of stance, both negation and modality contribute to the expression of evaluation in discourse, though little… read more
2014 Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers’ production of complaints and disagreements in English and Spanish The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 261–284 | Article
This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish University
students on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints,
disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-play
eliciting procedure for the collection of what a speaker… read more
2013 Special issue on metaphorical creativity across modes Metaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 133–139 | Article
2013 Multimodal metonymy and metaphor as complex discourse resources for creativity in ICT advertising discourse Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 157–181 | Article
In this paper we carry out a study of multimodal metaphors in a corpus of 52 ICT advertisements published in English-speaking magazines during the period 1999–2002. The general theoretical framework adopted for this purpose is a combination of text world theory and of a multimodal approach to… read more
2013 Metaphorical creativity and recontextualization in multimodal advertisements on e-business across time Metaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 199–219 | Article
In this article we explore the creative recontextualization of JOURNEY, WAR, RACE and SPORTS metaphors and discuss their manifestations in multimodal ICT advertisements across time. Our objectives are to discuss (i) the choices of metaphors and related source domains used to describe (e)businesses… read more
2011 Multimodal metonymy and metaphor as complex discourse resources for creativity in ICT advertising discourse Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 153–178 | Article
In this paper we carry out a study of multimodal metaphors in a corpus of 52 ICT advertisements published in English-speaking magazines during the period 1999–2002. The general theoretical framework adopted for this purpose is a combination of text world theory and of a multimodal approach to… read more
2007 Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken Spanish Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 327–348 | Article
This paper presents a discussion on the interactive and textual functions of pronominal marked topics in spoken Spanish. The study is a continuation of an empirical analysis based on Marcos Marín’s Corpus oral de referencia de español contemporáneo (Marcos Marín 1992), in which we have examined the… read more